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Fine Art Gallery in San Diego nested in the heart of La Jolla CoveThu, 10 Jun 2010 07:41:23 +0000http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2enhourly1What is the latest news with Pamela Sukhumhttp://www.hallmarkgallery.com/blog/?p=189
http://www.hallmarkgallery.com/blog/?p=189#commentsThu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:33 +0000Michelle Mitchellhttp://www.hallmarkgallery.com/blog/?p=189Pamela Sukhum continue to grow and produce exquisite and unique works or art inspired by personal experience. Collectors are usually drawn to her paintings on a personal level and resonant with the expressions put forth in the paintings.

Dissolution by Pamela Sukhum

Lately Pamela is excited to unveil & release her new series of original paintings titled “Bamboo Amongst Oaks.” These highly vibrant and detailed pieces are very textural, with several impasto layers creating depth and luminosity. There are pieces of varying sizes & palettes in this series. Many of them have already been placed with collectors.

Bamboo Amongst Oaks 25 - original by Pamela Sukhum

Pamela shared with us her inspiration for these wonderful new works:

“These pieces are about finding a sense of home and belonging. Growing up in a small Midwest town as one of the only non-white students, I often felt as if I didn’t fit in with the others…..like a Bamboo Amongst Oaks. As the years went on, I left the confines of my small town and began to explore the world. In my travels I came across many different people, ideologies, and customs, and I began to realize that nearly everyone, regardless of race, origin, or background experiences this same longing for a sense of home and belonging in their lives. It is this shared experience that connects us all.

I believe we can come to love and appreciate all the differences that make each of us truly unique “that make each of us stand and grow towards the light” like a Bamboo Amongst Oaks.”

New Bamboo Amongst Oaks
Limited Edition Released

The series is well received and in order to share more of her works with everyone, Pamela has released two limited editions with hand-embellishment.

Repent! The world is coming to an end! And so it would seem that the abstract expressionists like Pollock who looked at their world and saw the cold end coming turned their art into manifestations of that world-view. The nuclear age from 1945 till his death in 1956 influenced his output. Nothing really had permanence or meaning; everything was hidden. Nothing would last. Stand above the canvas and drip and flick and then extrapolate meaning and give it to the art world then starved for something new and iconoclastic. I look at a Pollock and worry that experts see a real meaning where he himself saw nothing.

No form, no space, no color. A bleak canvas with lines going anywhere and nowhere gleaning interpretation from a crafty, greedy art world duping its patrons with lofty expressions of the insight only it could provide. So-called experts fooling themselves and fooling others into accepting such drivel as precocious work only the cognoscenti would see revealed. A charlatan playing the pipe for wannabes.

Rothko, on the other hand, saw a similar evil world but used form and space and color to interpret that evil into an epitaph at once revealing its emotion and tugging at the viewer, drawing that viewer into the work with both eyes and heart. One cries when looking at the work. And cries even more when the realisation sets in that the richer the color, the further down the hole of empty depression Rothko sank. An inglorious but inevitable end to a life wasted as a human being but ever-living as an artist. No meaningless drippings here! Rothko presents the viewer with his soul.